(11-27-2019 02:06 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(11-27-2019 01:27 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(11-27-2019 10:02 AM)Crayton Wrote:  

(11-26-2019 10:40 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(11-26-2019 01:45 PM)stever20 Wrote:  ah the stupid as **** round 1 team loses and goes to a bowl game...... it's back and as stupid as ever.

Right, a team that is denied a chance at being the national champion would never want to go on and play in a bowl game.

If the playoff ever got this big, the bowl games would lose quite a bit of their prestige. But, yes, teams would still go to them (wouldn't they?). Not sure a bowl dedicated to playoff "losers" (a consolation bowl) is the way to go though; such games would have to rotate among a series of bowls. Perhaps it may be best for logistics. Again, not sure.

I was being facetious. Of course a team that is eliminated from the national championship would want to go to a bowl if the option were available. Every season, virtually all FBS teams are eliminated from the CFP and they still seek to bowl. Teams lose CCGs all the time and still seek to bowl. That the losing teams of the first round of an early-starting expanded playoff would opt not to then go bowling is an absurd notion. It's one of the irrational beliefs that some people seem to cling to, like the idea that CCGs are somehow not postseason games or that the Big East is not a power basketball conference.

Sorry but no ******* chance.... . You know how we have players skipping bowl games..... Well- every single nfl prospect- even 6th/7th rd picks- would skip an even more meaningless bowl game after losing a playoff game. EVERY SINGLE one of them..... Sorry but that is definitely a no chance in hell proposal.....

Some players might perhaps opt out, but the team will absolutely go. Even if it's a low-paying bowl, the exposure must make it ultimately pay off, or the bowls wouldn't exist. Has a team eligible to bowl ever declined to bowl? The recent one that was canceled due to bad weather rather than rescheduled is the closest thing I know of to a team declining to bowl.